Activities to help the students to know Malaysia better

There is an orientation programs for international students who are going to study in Malaysia. Suggest various activities to help the students get to know Malaysia better. 

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     When we travel to another country, we may not know all the culture that lies in the country .This situation will occur in students who transfer to other country to study, as they do not know what are the cultures and the rules and regulation in their society. You never know whether the things that you are doing are actually against their culture or you are just making people mad till the point that they just want to punch your guts out. This also imply to the international students in our country. I mean, someone of probably make you get on your nerve before by accidents. Therefore, we need to introduce our international students to our culture so that they can understand more about our country and feel comfortable being around. The easiest way to make the students to know more about Malaysia is through activities.

     One of the activities that we can conduct for the students includes letting them participate in a short home-stay programs with Malaysian families. When they participate in those programs, they can understand in detail about our culture because when they stay with the family of the home stay programs, they can help to cook and so on. For example, when the student experience home-stay around the village, they can experience the lifestyle and the culture within the village, they can taste home cook food, try fishing, planting paddy and so on.

  Besides that, visiting important landmarks of modern Malaysia. Landmarks such as Petronas Twin Tower, Batu Cave and so on can fascinate the students and thus making them to gain the motivation to know more.

   Other than that, Visiting museums and historical places in Malaysia can also hike up their knowledge about our lovely nation. For instance, students can take the bus to the national museum or even better, the old “istana” which now is open to public. When they go to those place, they will get a wider understanding on our culture. If they are around Malacca, they can go to A’Famosa to see the historical buildings.

   Aside from that, being introduced to social and cultural events of Malaysia can also help the student in understanding more about our country.Universities can form groups of four international students to one or two national students so that they can ask questions or the national students can bring them around to meet more people and the culture.